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President Bashar al-Assad is not about to go. Not yet. Not, maybe, for quite a long time. Newspapers in the Middle East are filled with stories about whether or not this is Assad's "Benghazi moment" – these reports are almost invariably written from Washington or London or Paris – but few in the region understand how we Westerners can get it so wrong.
I came to know Yugoslavia three times in a span of 60 years; one in the 1950s, another in the 1990s and one last week.
I started my visit to Sarajevo by having lunch as a guest of the Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina at a traditional Bosnian restaurant in the beautiful national park which is situated by the water springs at the foothills of the Mount Igman which feed the Bosna River at the outskirts of Sarajevo.
In his excellent 1954 book Introducing Yugoslavia, British author Lovett F. Edwards was also fond of Mostar, a small city set like a jewel in the mountainous landscape of southern Bosnia-Herzegovina. But who wouldn't.
On Bosnia-Herzegovina of today, political scientist Dr. Florian Bieber of Kent University, in Central and Southeast European Politics Since, makes the following important comments, "Democratization and Europeanization of Bosnia remain more conditional on its neighbors than is the case in most other Central and East European countries."
Canada continues to spin its wheels in efforts to get Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor released from Chinese confinement. And what is missing is any recognition of the other two Canadians in custody, Sun Qian and Huseyin Celil. Sun has been sentenced to eight years for her participation in Falun Gong and Celil has spent 14 years in custody because he is a Uyghur human rights defender.
As Warren Buffet quips, we are in a class war - and the regime-change project is the cabal's war plan to win a total and lasting victory over the rest of humanity. It is important that those of us in the 99% under-class realize we're under systematic attack.
Mr. Premier: With great dismay I read your comments in The Globe and Mail story "McGuinty refuses to apologize over G-20 fence law."
Despite all the reports of mass murder and destruction wreaked on innocent civilians in Libya by dictator Mu'ammar Gaddafi's home-grown thugs and foreign mercenaries, one cannot but be shocked by the fact that this criminal and thief still manages to delude some people who are fooled by his cheap tricks.
Qatari Ali Hassan al-Jaber was assassinated by Gadhafi agents on March 12. Al-Jaber was working as a photographer for al-Jazeera. He and correspondent Baybah Wald Amhadi were attacked in their car outside Benghazi. Amhadi said that they were aware of being under surveillance for days before the attack. Al-Jaber was struck by three bullets and Amhadi was also wounded in the attack.
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